Hey Guys, I am so sorry it has taken me so long to get this up but you would not believe how long I have been sick for it has been a nasty number of days, but here's the chapter so…Enjoy!

Chapter 9,

Strange Ways,

At Regina's house Henry was the only one still there because she had gone to the Mayor's office to start work already; he was just making his lunch so he could pack it into his backpack when there was a knocking on the door. Henry soon answered the door to find Emma standing there.

"Emma what are you doing here?" He asked,

"I need to speak to you about something can I come in?" She asked,

"Sure." So Emma soon followed Henry into the kitchen where he was halfway through making his lunch,

"So what is it you want to talk to me about?" Henry asked,

"I thought you said no one comes to StoryBrooke?" She asked,

"That's right they don't because of the curse." He answered,

"Well someone arrived in StoryBrooke last night, I left Graham to talk to you after he went to talk to our new guest…so who do you think he might be?" Emma asked,

"It's hard to say…do you know anything about him?" Henry asked,

"No…but you know everyone in StoryBrooke, which means you, should know who isn't here." Emma reasoned,

"Yes but that's the thing everyone from this book is already here, there's no one else to come…not as far as I know." He explained,

"Well I'll go see what Graham was able to learn, while you review that book and see if you've missed anyone, and don't be too late for school." Emma said, as she winked at Henry,

"There's just one thing I want to say before you go." He said,

"Oh, and what's that?" Emma asked curiously, as she unconsciously bit into an apple, that she had taken from a fruit bowl sitting on the bench,

"Now that you know you're the Saviour, do you have any idea how you're going to break the curse?" He asked,

"I'll admit it, I'm still coming to terms with the fact that I live with…my mother who doesn't even know who I am, and my father who's married to another woman, although I believe Regina might have a hand in that, I work for the huntsman, who saved my mother…it's a bit to take in for sure." She explained,

"I wish I could help you figure out how to break the curse, but the book has no record of it ever being broken." Henry said regretfully,

"Well we're about to make history Henry." Emma assured,

"You're the Saviour I know you'll figure it out, I just wish everyone could remember who they are." He explained,

"Well I think our newcomer knows who he is, or else he wouldn't have come here, because the curse prevents people form this world coming here." She said,

"Well if you are right and he does know who he is, what is he doing here, what's his purpose?" Henry asked,

"That kid is what I hope you're going to tell me." Emma answered,

"Speaking of telling, you better go see the sheriff so you can see who our new guest is, and I better get to school before Regina suspects anything's up with us." Henry reasoned,

"Alright but this is a team effort if we're going to find out who this guy is, I need you're help too, which means if you have to skip school for a bit that's alright, just make sure it's not noticeable." She said,

"Way ahead of you Emma…why are you eating that apple?" Henry asked,

"It was sitting in the bowl so I thought it would be alright, because although she's the evil Queen, I don't think she would put you in harms way." Emma justified,

"You're probably right because she named me after her father, who she killed so she could enact the curse that brought all of you here, and from what I've read she loved him…but just in case don't eat anymore apple's from around here." Henry advised,

"Well I won't put this one back now that I've eaten it so I'll take it with me, but in future I'll think twice before I touch another apple that comes from this house." She agreed, "See you after school." She then walked out of the house, and down the street,

Sheriff's Department,

Emma walked in to find Graham sitting at his desk going over some paper work, with Age lying on the blanket that had been placed on the floor the first time he had come here. She walked into his office, as he looked up once he heard her footfalls on the wooden floor.

"So what did you find out?" They both managed to ask in unison, there was a small pause before Graham gave the signal for Emma to start,

"So what did you find out about our visitor?" She asked,

"Well he's a writer, and he clearly shows no sign of knowing his true identity, if he's even from our world." Graham explained,

"Well neither did Gold until you confronted him." Emma reminded, "Did he say what he was looking for?" She asked,

"He said he was looking for inspiration, and we have no way of proving if that was not what he meant when he told Ruby's Grandmother he was looking for something." Graham answered,

"Right so that doesn't get us anywhere." Emma muttered,

"He offered to give me a copy of a book he's already printed; do you want me to get one off him it might tell us something?" He asked,

"That's a start; because most writers when they're first starting out write stories about something that has happened to them that they couldn't do anything about, so they make it fictitious and create a resolution to the problem." She agreed,

"You seem to know a lot about writers." Graham mentioned,

"Yeah well I tried to write a book once." She explained,

"Oh and how did it go?" He asked,

"I gave up." She answered,

"Why?" Graham questioned,

"Because what's done is done, you can't change it, there's no use creating your ideal happy ending, when you know it's just a story, and you'll always know what really happened." She answered,

"Interesting point." He admitted, "So what did you find out from Henry, and his great big book of everything?" he asked,

"Nothing." She replied,

"What do you mean?" He questioned,

"Well as far as he knows, everyone from the book is here already." She answered,

"But people from this world don't come here because of the curse so he must be someone from our world who isn't in the book." Graham reasoned,

"Well the curse has strange ways of drawing the people from our world to this town, so if he isn't in the book then he must have been sent here before the book was created and so he doesn't have a story, and if he came here before the curse than he might still have his memory, providing he didn't get here when he was an infant like me." She explained,

"You might be right, so we have to treat him like everyone else, because if he does know who he is then he might get suspicious and resort to drastic means to finish his business here before we know what it is, and can prevent him from completing it." Graham advised,

"Well now that that's sorted I'll hold down the fort here until you get that book so we can do a background check on this guy, and try and find out as much about him as we can." She said, as she walked around behind him, and teasingly pushed him out of the chair, and threw his jacket at him so he could get going,

Back at the diner Ruby had dozed off while she was left in the back room to go over the books, because Granny wanted her to take over the place one day, but regardless of that fact she still hated the book work that was involved, because it bored her. And as she slept her head resting on her arm that was resting across the ledger she was working on, her mind was racing over the stricken memories of her life that had slowly begun to return to her ever since Jason had touched her.

She was in a chicken coop, she was wearing old fashioned clothes along with a red hooded cape, and she was carrying a basket collecting eggs, but when she was about to leave there was a rustle coming from behind her. She walked over to were the noise was, when all of a sudden a woman popped up from behind a rail holding two eggs in her hands, she seemed to be quite nervous.

"I'm sorry I can go." Snow said,

"Are you stealing our eggs?" Red asked,

"No…not a lot." She answered as she held the eggs out in front of her,

"Hey, hey, it's alright." Red assured,

"Thank you…it's just that last night there was something out there, there was howling and it was cold so."

"Hey, come with me." She offered, "Everyone calls me Red."

"Everyone calls me Red…Everyone calls me Red." The words replaying themselves, then it forwarded a few minutes and they were outside walking towards a well,

"What was all that howling?" Snow asked,

"It's wolf's time, there's a wolf out there, as big as a pony but a lot more blood thirsty it's been stalking the area pretty regularly." Red explained, she then got Snow White to help her pull the well rope because it sometimes got stuck, but then Snow froze,

Red had discovered that the water in the well was red from blood, and she wanted Snow to see, but when she didn't come to look Red came over to Snow and soon saw what had made her freeze. There were dead bodies everywhere, some with limbs torn from their bodies, blood covered the snow, Red dropped the rope she was holding and starred in horror.

Then it flashed forward to a council of hunters, and Red's Grandmother was explaining how she got the scare on her forearm, and also about how pointless it was to pursue the wolf that had been plaguing them.

"Ruby wake up." Granny interrupted her slumber, and Ruby gasped in fear,

"Are you alright?" Granny asked,

"Yeah, I just had a really strange dream about me, you, and Mary Margaret." Ruby explained,

"A dream this time, do you want to talk about it?" Granny asked,

"No I don't think so, because like you said I'm just tired or else I wouldn't have fallen asleep right?" Ruby dismissed, as she got back into her book work,

"You know that if ever you need me I'm here." Granny reminded,

"I know there's just nothing to talk about right now, that's all." Ruby assured, as she stood up to kiss her Grandmother on the cheek, before sitting back down to complete her task,

"Why don't you go back out into the diner and wait tables, I'll finish the book work." Granny said,

"Thanks, I don't know how you manage in here." Ruby thanked graciously,

"You never were one for solitude…go on." She urged, before she then watched as Ruby bounced out of the room,

Graham and Emma are sharing more time together and Ruby is remembering more about herself, how will this end?

Will try to get the next chapter up as soon as possible.